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One time, I had a friend over to play a bit of Red Alert on my LAN. During the game he said he needed to go to the bathroom, so we paused it. After about 10 minutes of wondering where the hell he went, I get up and go to check on him.

One time, I had a friend over to play a bit of Red Alert on my LAN. During the game he said he needed to go to the bathroom, so we paused it. After about 10 minutes of wondering where the hell he went, I get up and go to check on him.

One time, I had a friend over to play a bit of Red Alert on my LAN. During the game he said he needed to go to the bathroom, so we paused it. After about 10 minutes of wondering where the hell he went, I get up and go to check on him.

The show has had its share of people in it all the same. Mortal or otherwise. Some of which are recurring characters!

Spoiler:

Azazel, Lucifer, Crowley, All Four Horsemen, The Vast Majority of Demons and Angels: White people = Totally fine.

Crazy ass hunter: Black guy = RACISM

You missed the point pretty hard. The proportion of black people who are bad/good/nuanced vs. the proportion of white people who are bad/good/nuanced is incredibly unequal to the point that it is problematic.

A couple things.

One, there are more white badguys than anything else on the show.
Two, Skull pointed out that the first appearance of a black dude in the show with a significant plot role happened to be a pyschopath. This is ignoring that the character was fitting in numerous themes (succumbing to the instincts of the monster and becoming the monster) while being a play on Blade. Maybe Skull would rather the character be cast as a white guy, since the character fit in perfectly with the narrative (as hackneyed as it is at times). Menacing the girl with a knife? Has something to do with the fact that cutting of their heads is the only way to kill.

And the only reason why Dean didn't kill the girl was because he was proving a point of loyalty to Sam. One thing about the show I've noticed is that nobody is able to resist the monster urges. That vamp girl that they captured?

Spoiler:

Eventually, she killed someone and fed in season 6. All her nest did.

Oh, the first black guy on the show was a badguy. There have been a shitton of black guys and gals since then and there has been as much variance as the rest of the cast.

And hey, at least there are black actors on the show as opposed to asians who get basically zero representation at all.

Keep in mind that by season six

Spoiler:

Three characters from season 1 are alive. And the only one still alive who hasn't gone total darkside at one point is Bobby.

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munkus the point is that literally the first black male character in something like 25 hours of the show was an unsympathetic psychopath who spent the climax of the episode menacing a white woman

there can be a dozen reasons for it and justifications or whatever but the point is that they chose to break the whitewashing by featuring a totally negative character who was worse than the monsters and it's a little rich to try to swallow the idea that it wasn't some innocent, non-subconsciously-racist decision when, as I mentioned, he was the first black male in 25 hours

the thing about privilege is you can find it in literally everything if you are looking, and pretending that there is any goddamn way to please everyone is a fool's errand. Unless it is being actively, consciously, and aggressively denigrating, it all comes off like you are looking for a fight, even if you aren't. because, at the end of the day, it is no one's job to protect your feelings.

the thing about privilege is you can find it in literally everything if you are looking, and pretending that there is any goddamn way to please everyone is a fool's errand. Unless it is being actively, consciously, and aggressively denigrating, it all comes off like you are looking for a fight, even if you aren't. because, at the end of the day, it is no one's job to protect your feelings.

munkus the point is that literally the first black male character in something like 25 hours of the show was an unsympathetic psychopath who spent the climax of the episode menacing a white woman

there can be a dozen reasons for it and justifications or whatever but the point is that they chose to break the whitewashing by featuring a totally negative character who was worse than the monsters and it's a little rich to try to swallow the idea that it wasn't some innocent, non-subconsciously-racist decision when, as I mentioned, he was the first black male in 25 hours

It really doesn't matter when, in the grand scheme of the show, it was just the first black character. Especially since his character fit part and parcel perfect with the themes of the fucking show. That character was gonna be made regardless. The only thing placating your upset sensibilities would accomplish would be one less job for that actor.

Boo hoo, the first character was a badguy. In a show where half the characters are darkside. He wasn't even a straight up badguy, just an overzealous guy. (And since [season 6 spoiler]

Spoiler:

the vamp he was gonna kill ended up feeding anyway he ended up being right about her and her kind.

Strangely enough, that has been a major theme of the show, however inadvertantly. If you are condemned to go darkside, you will go darkside. The only exception has been one brief, really silly-suspension-of-belief moment in the season 5 finale.

On a sidenote (s5 spoilers)

Spoiler:

Yes. Crowley is fucking awesome.

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